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Editor Erin Casper on shaping interviews in "American Promise." From "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 11th, 2016. This week's #WCW at MEWShop is former Sight, Sound and Story panelist and Erin Casper! Erin is an Emmy-nominated documentary editor based in New York.  Erin’s recent editing credits include "The Last Season" (2015 Truer Than Fiction Independent Spirit Award nominee); and "American Promise" (POV 2014, Special Jury Prize for Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection of the 51st Annual New York Film Festival).  Erin also edited "The New Black" (Independent Lens in 2014, GLAAD and NAACP Image Award nominee); "Our School," (winner of the 2011 Sterling Award for Best US Feature Documentary at AFI DOCS); and short nonfiction pieces for NY Times Op-Docs and The Intercept. In 2011, Erin was the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship...

Editor Meg Reticker on Searching for Clues to Cutting from "30 Rock," "The Wire," and "Big Love"   Meg Reticker is an accomplished editor in both film and television, whose career spans genre and with a list of credits that would make most comedy nerds, in particular, swoon. Her television credits include the award winning shows True Detective, 30 Rock, Big Love, Bored to Death, and The Wire. Meg’s feature film credits include Winged Creatures, directed by Rowan Woods. Meg’s also edited Come Early Morning, directed by Joey Lauren Adams; A Decade Under the Influence (directors Richard LeGravense and Ted Demme), which played in the 2003 Sundance Documentary Competition; Wet Hot American Summer, which premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival; and Heavy, staring Liv Tyler, which won the Special Director's Award at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and showed in the Director's Fortnight of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. She has also worked pr...